I bet all he was thinking of, was home.

OneDougUnderPar · 2 months

Pianos are pretty common targets for booby traps, since it's hard to resist playing one, especially in war times. English Patient, for example.

Another common target were slightly askew photos or paintings.

mastercylinder2 · 2 months

Also, he could be thinking "This is a piano."

herbert_andy · 2 months

or "why the fuck is there a piano in the forest?"

almostalwaysafraid · 2 months

My great uncle was an engineer in WWII and always tells stories from his war days to anyone who cares to listen.

My favorite one was about how he learned to play the accordion.

As he told it, his platoon was moving through Europe, not seeing much action mostly just building bridges to move supplies across Europe where they had been destroyed. Anyway, there was always need for entertainment. As they moved through an abandoned town they came across an accordion in the rubble. My uncle was a fairly musical guy, sang in the choir and played the piano and organs in church. Someone outed him in the platoon and so the commanding officer literally ordered him to go off into the woods and learn how to play the accordion. He said it was difficult at first, but once he started to figure the notes out, and then some chords it came quite naturally.

As he said, all they needed was his novice accordion playing, someone had a violin, and someone else just tapping on a wooden barrel, throw in a keg of beer, and they have their entertainment for the night.

Anyway, this picture reminded me of him, thanks.

echoes_1992 · 2 months

I'm surprised they tolerate him carrying that thing around all the time. I thought militaries frowned on personal items being carried around with their gear.

Defualt · 2 months

that's not how you use a comma

jnjs · 2 months

Does anyone remember an animated movie where a guy in WW2 sits down at a piano like this in a bombed-out building and Nazis sneak up on him while he's reminiscing?

Smackythefrogs · 2 months

Great picture, any backstory?

shitterplug · 2 months

"Hey Johnson! Get a load of this thing! Remember that broad I plowed in Munich? She had one just like it!"

gazza995 · 2 months

Or "i have no idea what im doing"

azdak · 2 months

Yet; all I can think about, is punctuation.

G1itch · 2 months

Very relevant:

piano after war

On a snug evening I shall watch her fingers, Cleverly ringed, decling to clever pink, Beg glory from the willing keys. Old hungers Will break their coffins, rise to eat and thank. And music, warily, like the golden rose That sometimes after sunset warms the west, Will warm that room, persuasively suffuse That room and me, rejuvenate a past. But suddenly, across my climbing fever Of proud delight--a multiplying cry. A cry of bitter dead men who will never Attend a gentle maker of musical joy. Then my thawed eye will go again to ice. And stone will shove the softness from my face.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

FifeeBoy · 2 months

It's a soldier during the first Chechen war.

arkington · 2 months

i'm just thinking about how incredibly creepy it would be to be out on patrol in some forest that for all intents and purposes seems to be abandoned, when softly in the distance there seems to be a piano playing. the sound, having no walls to muffle it, would pretty much carry for miles, i would think. reminds me of when i learned that Mengele would play piano through the PA system in the concentration camps to fuck with the people there by giving them something beautiful that was created by the horrid beast that was, by day, torturing them to death.

RzK · 2 months

lol cheesy title

buscemi_buttocks · 2 months

All I was thinking of was Bugs Bunny:

"Ooo you stupid rabbit!"

hollingsworthless · 2 months

What I'm thinking

HotrodCorvair · 2 months

All Im thinking is of Bugs Bunny.

Wrong key, BOOM.

CozenOne · 2 months

shitty title

akuracy · 2 months

Reminds me of that movie involving a Jew evading the Regime and the Jew is a famous Pianist. Great film.

IrfanM · 2 months

I would buy this as a poster.

CrazySpatula · 2 months

"So... you guys heard Chopsticks?"

porkalope · 2 months

"There it was. The soundtrack to my life. And, for a few seconds, came harmony. Finally."

xxcbr600xx · 2 months

"And I need you{dunadunadun} And I miss you{dunadunadun} And now I wonder...."

Senor_Asshole · 2 months

LKmm · 2 months

"Still working, maybe I can take this home....."

RandomExpletive · 2 months

There it was, the soundtrack to my life

And, for a few seconds, came harmony

WhereIsMyCakeBaby · 2 months

Bullshit. Like every other male, he was playing moonlight sonata by Beethoven, and thinking 'shit, I'm practicing because when I get to an actual bar this is going to cause women's panties to literally fly off'. Source - nine years of piano lessons.

JaqHammerJesus · 2 months

I bet he was thinking of chopsticks.

AWMSS · 2 months

I have this as the background on my laptop. Makes me think of how even during war, people remember the simple things in life.

Shinigamijono · 2 months

"Damn I wish I could play the piano!"

pHreaksYcle · 2 months

...and then we shot him in the face.

abowen79 · 2 months

This is a beautiful thought.

keshav108 · 2 months

Reminds me of The Pianist..

ZoomBlah · 2 months

My first thought was "Who the fuck is gonna tune that?"

Ras_H_Tafari · 2 months

It looks like a music video. 'Piano in the forest' is highly versatile, if not vague and maybe simply feigning deepness. I don't know what the soldier represents. An Eastern European soldier, obviously represented by the fur hat and Kalashnikov rifle.

rodmandirect · 2 months

Dr. Samuel Beckett?

bvanman · 2 months

"If I could play this, I bet I'd get a bunch of bitches. Yeah."

DoubleHawk4Life · 2 months

As a military serviceman on deployment, I can say yes, he was thinking of home.

jaaaaack · 2 months

I teared up a bit.

ivebeenhereallsummer · 2 months

Maybe he was thinking, "Hey, this piano would make a cool fountain."

CheatingCheetos · 2 months

Or, man I wish Russia would get out of my home.

gl77 · 2 months

Or "why the fuck was I so stupid and sign up for the military so they could send me off to foreign lands to kill people for some rich assholes that don't give two shits about me?"

biopsy · 2 months

Relevant?

Squatso · 2 months

He wasn't thinking of home, but rather trying to play the tune to a Wu Tang track.

IvardLongview · 2 months

for any my chemical romance fans, i could definitely imagine him playing "Welcome to the Black Parade"

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